jayjader

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by jayjader 2y ago
I'm not who you're responding to, but: > that’s why I used the term western liberalism not “neoliberal hegemony of wealthy Western nations.” the latter often cloaks itself as the former when asserting itself. For example, in Fr
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by jayjader 3y ago
There was (still is?) a French law that mandates the maximum sales price for soft-cover/paperback books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Law (if you can read it, the French version of that wikipedia article is
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by jayjader 3y ago
I think I agree with the author's sentiment and final conclusions, but I very much disagree with some of the language used. The author never defines "criminal". I can only hope they don't literally mean "someone who
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by jayjader 3y ago
<progress> requires some vendor-specific prefixes last time I tried theming it using CSS (unless you're using "theme" to mean host system/window mananger/browser - wide theme). There is no common subset (that
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by jayjader 3y ago
Agreed; it's very serendipitous that you can basically light up a room with the gravitational energy that the sun/earth pair radiate out into space. Light up 1 room with an incandescent bulb, or your entire flat with LED bulbs now
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by jayjader 3y ago
I don't know of any programming language that does that as a language-first primitive. But this is basically slapping a `#pragma openmp parallel for` before your C for loop. In Rust there is the crate `rayon` that takes advantage of th
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by jayjader 3y ago
Very interesting! I'm especially curious on how the live-coding experience plays out. I wish there was an example of a moderately-complex scrapbook, so that I could see what the code looks like when you start mixing several scraps and
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by jayjader 4y ago
I would temper your message with the caveat that the data is still accessible to the user; one click to open devtools, and another to switch to the "Storage" tab, and you have all your persisted data visible to the user. You can c
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by jayjader 4y ago
Good to see public sharing not only of such a problem, but also how to fix it in your own code. I am a bit disconcerted that something that apparently is warned against in the docs, is done across several "big" packages that use H
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by jayjader 4y ago
An interesting read. Near the end I started to feel like what the author is describing is very similar to the general approach I've coalesced on, over the years. I've always deleted the snippet(s) in question after implementing th
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by jayjader 4y ago
> but they're hard to visualise and reason about because they don't fit a circle in whole numbers. I think, unfortunately, that you can't avoid encountering irrational numbers in trig. You would need to constrain yourself
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by jayjader 4y ago
I see that /u/metaphor has given you some formal references. I'd like to chime in with a more intuition-based explanation of what transfer functions are, from my recollections of college control theory classes in both electri
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by jayjader 5y ago
> I grew up in central europe, and i find the putting-people-into-categories thinking that seems to be common in the US very off-putting. Do you realize in this very sentence, you've exhibited 2 instances of "putting-people-int
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by jayjader 5y ago
Hmm. I agree that the problem is larger than capitalism and is closer to human nature, but saying > The very problem is that humans are form of life and restraining ourselves or worsening quality of life "for next generation" g
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by jayjader 5y ago
Sure, if you're making a text adventure in the command line, then the REPL is basically your default game engine. That's where your i/o, computation, control flow, asset management, etc is implemented/centralized. "
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by jayjader 5y ago
> As a young man, who survived Covid, why would I risk heart complications to save some old people? First of all, because if enough of us don't take the vaccine, we're all at risk from the virus continuing to spread and mutate.
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by jayjader 5y ago
> It was only by rethinking every layer of our infrastructure that we were able to pull Spotify off, to create that magic moment of double-clicking on a new song and having it instantly play. And speaking of magic … This reminds me of a
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by jayjader 5y ago
obviously, just like I'm talking about what you _do_ with the increase. Are you really just saying to leave the increase in value alone? Then why pursue it? I'm under the impression that an increase in company value is not an end
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by jayjader 5y ago
> Right so instead we should take one of those 100 people and give them the power of violence to take all the coconuts and distribute as they see fit. No one is saying that. We take all the coconuts, gather all the people, and work to co
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by jayjader 5y ago
> For example, Elon Musk would be forced to sell all but a minuscule sliver of his shares in Tesla, SpaceX, etc and give the proceeds to the tax man. He'd be out on his arse and replaced by an executive hired by whoever bought the s
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by jayjader 5y ago
It depend on what is done with said boost. It would go straight into your wallet? Makes perfect sense to me for the government to get an additional cut. It would go straight into the companies' salaries? No reason for the government to
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by jayjader 5y ago
Guess they'll have to start taking lessons from professional athletes who've had to figure out how to deal with not being able to "continue playing the game" and still be happy.
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by jayjader 5y ago
Then don't pin to a dollar amount, pin to relative wealth available in the world/country/region. Something like estimated total accumulated wealth / total pop. Inflation destroys the value of money, not the underlying go
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by jayjader 5y ago
> if you log in on a new device and see all your content while using only login and password to authenticate yourself What about if the encryption key is derived from your password? This is common enough for "encrypt file with a pa
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by jayjader 5y ago
Well, we're not likely to be able to do interstellar travel in our lifetimes, so for today it doesn't have much consequence :)
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by jayjader 5y ago
Depending on the situation, the chess website/app might show you that there is only 1 left. Already, when in check, you can't play a move that doesn't stop or cancel that check.
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by jayjader 5y ago
> If a T.W. is a W., why do they say T.W.? If a human female is a human, why do we say human female? Because it adds additional, usually relevant, context.
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by jayjader 5y ago
Not OP, but I imagine it's along the lines of "my brain now evaluates as if even a close friend can do this to me, there's now way I'm taking chances with a stranger". Trauma sucks.
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by jayjader 5y ago
Just fyi, `pass generate` has a --no-symbols option that should save you some time in the future.
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by jayjader 5y ago
Not that this is a sure-fire explanation, but off the top of my head I can think of at least 2 industries that would have vested interests in suppressing permaculture: pesticides & fertilizers. Annecdotally, many farmers here in France

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